In My Pocket
a collection of digital goodness
March 28, 2016
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I'd love to eventually put together a subscription newsletter like my favorites Doug and Audrey and Laura and Stephen have done, but I'm not there yet. Until then, I'll share what's In My Pocket via Smore and my blog. If you see something interesting on the interwebs or have created something you'd like to see included here, send it my way. Enjoy!
Harry Potter #WeirdEd
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Google Chrome Extensions
Orange Slice - Rubrics are all the rage, the more project-based we become, the more creative we have to get with assessing things that probably don't need to be assessed. Ahem. But if you truly have a quality rubric and you even asked your kids to design it, well then use Orange Slice in conjunction with Google Apps to help keep track of everything. Great for peer editing too. Orange Slice Teacher and Orange Slice Student
One-Click Timer - Simple and easy and plays melodies when time's up.
Readability - Remove the clutter from your webpages and read on.
Checker Plus for Gmail - Many people wish Gmail included audio notifications. With Checker Plus, you can enable new mail notifications and more. I love that a dialog box pops up to indicate new mail has arrived, that I can read it right from my browser, delete it, or mark as read. Lots of features available!
P.S. I recently bought a new Chromebook and when I first started browsing, it seemed awfully slow to me. Curses!! This isn't what I signed up for! So I Googled possible solutions and the recommendation was to disable all of my extensions and then re-add them, one by one, thus revealing the culprit extension that was bogging down my browser. It worked! Extensions can be tricky beasts. And be sure to read their terms of use as well. Lots of hubbub regarding malware and Awesome Screenshot in the past, thus Awesome Screenshot Minus was born...
Dear Smore,
Love, Lyn
PA Pride
Flipping for Flippity
A sea of sketch notes
Coming up....
You may also see my face at the Garden State Summit featuring Google for Education, EdCamp Lancaster, and the Wilson Core Connections Conference. Check them out!
Thanks for reading!
About Lyn
Email: lynhilt@gmail.com
Website: lynhilt.com
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Twitter: @lynhilt